News & Announcements

Portland Opera today announced the complete repertory for its 2016 Festival Season. The season spans the months of May, June, and July, offering new productions of operas by Tchaikovsky and Rossini, as well as works by Mozart and Sondheim in internationally acclaimed designs. The 2016 Festival Season will also include an expanded Street Fair program, […]

Portland Opera launches its newest community-based program this spring with three performances of material from “The Great American Songbook.” Bob Kingston, the Opera’s popular pre-show lecturer, introduces each 90-minute session. The featured performers are Portland Opera Resident Artists Katrina Galka, Ian José Ramirez, and Alexander Elliott, along with some special guests, accompanied by David Saffert […]

Portland Opera To Go, Portland Opera’s annual Northwest tour, will feature the world premiere of an innovative bilingual adaptation of Rossini’s THE BARBER OF SEVILLE as its 2015 offering. Created by stage director Kristine McIntyre, the 50-minute adaptation will be performed in Spanish and English, demonstrating the power of love to triumph over adversity of every […]

Portland Opera General Director Christopher Mattaliano has announced the roster of special guest performers for DIE FLEDERMAUS, which opens the company’s 50th Anniversary Season on Friday, November 7. “From the very beginning we wanted to make DIE FLEDERMAUS a celebration that represents all that Portland has to offer,” said Mattaliano. “These PDX-style guests will entertain us […]

Portland Opera launches its 2014/15 50th Anniversary Season with DIE FLEDERMAUS, opening on Friday, November 7. This champagne-fueled operetta from 1874 is the magnum opus of Johann Strauss II, the “Waltz King,” whose concert works include “The Blue Danube” and “Tales from the Vienna Woods,” along with such fantastically successful stage pieces as The Gypsy […]

Join us for an opportunity to hear more about our Spring/Summer Festival Season Plans! We are holding three patron town hall meetings in the upcoming months: Tuesday, December 9 at 8:30 am Wednesday, January 7 at 5:30 pm Saturday, January 10 @ 11 am All meetings take place at the Portland Opera office, the Hampton […]

Portland Opera’s 2014/15 Resident Artists Katrina Galka, Ian José Ramirez, and Alexander Elliott, along with guest artist Laura Beckel Thoreson, will give a series of season previews for the company’s upcoming 50th Anniversary Season, which opens on Friday, November 7 with Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. Their 50-minute program includes “The Toreador Song” and […]

(Portland, OR) – Portland Opera General Director Christopher Mattaliano has announced the company’s Resident Artists for the 2014/15 season. They are: Soprano KATRINA GALKA, whose solo roles with Portland Opera this season will include Frasquita in Carmen and Ida in Die Fledermaus. On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 she will give her Resident Artist recital at […]

(Portland, OR) – Portland Opera and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) will collaborate to present “Opera on Screen,” a series of high-definition film screenings featuring recent productions from the San Francisco Opera. The series opens on Friday, September 5 with Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and continues with Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Puccini’s La Rondine, […]

Portland Opera takes celebrated 40-voice chorus into downtown Portland for free outdoor community event. (Portland, OR) Portland Opera invites the public to its free Open Chorus Rehearsal at Director Park in downtown Portland (between SW Taylor & Yamhill and 9th & Park) on Sunday, September 28 at 3pm, offering a sneak peek at what the […]